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[tommysgirl]

I had two F1 chicks hatch last night for my project!!!

Please oh please, it would be wonderful if they were both girls

I had set 20 eggs from the pen, 18 clear and 2 developing. I have more cooking, my plan is to end up with about ten girls to grow out, then everyone can go home and the parents can go back to purebred pens. This is my first ever crossbreed and I can hardly wait. Right now they are fluffy little white chicks.

Yay!

Congratulations! But do we get to know who you crossed? What are ya going for? Besides girls! Who will you use for the boy?

That's what I was going to ask. Or is it top secret?

 

[debs_flock]

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Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

 

[chicksnthestiks]

Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

Wow, they are definately eye candy!

 

[chiqita]

I have an issue right now. My hatch of my EE's, OE's and Polish, produced 3 cross beaked EE chicks!!!! One I caught at a few days old and offered it for free to one of the people who were purchasing chicks, explaining that it was special needs and I would cull but if he wanted to try to raise it with the knowledge he may need to cull himself. Then the other people who purchased called and say they a cross beak....and then another one is showing signs at 7 weeks!!!! Out of 17, three have crossbeak!!! They are all black chicks, which are some of my most beautiful, healthy chickens in my flock. But my black chicks lay colored eggs and I believe all these chicks came from a brown egg. Those would be my 4 hens that came from the feed store and look like heck! They always have bald backs and after they molt the feathers come in crazy.

Prior to this, all the chicks I have hatched, we had one cross beak. She also was black and we culled her at about 2 months because she was very tiny and chased us around begging for us to feed her. I already had one handicapped chicken and I couldn't take care of another and didn't want to risk her laying eggs and then trying to identify them so I didn't hatch them. Unfortunately, I have no way to know which hen is laying the crossbeaks so I'm not hatching any brown eggs. I have people waiting for chicks so I can't do a test by adding one hens eggs. You know, as I'm typing I'm remembering that I have added a brown laying hen to my flock. My daughter had four hens and lost three over the years and with only one left she decided to just rehome it with us. Maybe it's her? She got her chicks from a small farm and she's really a pretty girl, I think she's a cross between a buff orpington and a sexlink maybe. Hmmm

Anyone deal with this before. I'm pretty sure it's genetic right? I hate to hatch out crossbeak on purpose but I don't know how else to figure out who it is.

IIIRC it can be genetic or incubator. If it is all from one color egg I'd guess genetic from 1 hen. Do some quickly math and see if you set enough days eggs to account for 4 cross beaks from a single hen . If so can you mark her eggs?

 

[tommysgirl]

Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

Beautiful!!!

 

[tommysgirl]

That's exciting news! We'll hope that he is a cockerel right along with you! Post some pics if you get a chance!

These are from last week but you can see the legs of the one in the middle are greenish looking. Now they are definitely grey.



So much new feathering as this one has grown too. I will bore you with a post of an updated pic later. It's embarrassing that i didn't notice the legs sooner. They are totally obvious.

 

[Ali707]

HI! How is everybody doing today? I have been keeping caught up and going to comment on so many things, but I HATE HATE HATE responding on my phone.

So congratulations on all the new chicks! Love the pictures and the green roof on the coop. I wish I could be as excited about having roosters as some of you all are! I am bit worried about what to do with mine once they become a noise issue.

I am going to try to get some pictures of my chicks soon so I can put them up for all you picture junkies.

They are about 16 days old right now.

I will take some BORING pictures of my coop too, because I am sooooo slow it is still a frame. Sunday was hotter than blazes and I was outside schlepping on the coop and don't have much to show for all the blood, sweat and swearing I put in to it!

Tonight is my daughters Spring Musical so tonight is a bust with getting anything else done, but soon, I promise pictures.

Random question.... I have never had Orps before, and they just seem sooooo beefy. I am trying to find out if ANY of the 3 or maybe 4 that hatched are girls but they are all heavy and their legs are thick compared to the other chicks, I am afraid they are all boys. Are Orpington legs usually really thick even the girls?

 

[juststruttin]

I have an issue right now. My hatch of my EE's, OE's and Polish, produced 3 cross beaked EE chicks!!!! One I caught at a few days old and offered it for free to one of the people who were purchasing chicks, explaining that it was special needs and I would cull but if he wanted to try to raise it with the knowledge he may need to cull himself. Then the other people who purchased called and say they a cross beak....and then another one is showing signs at 7 weeks!!!! Out of 17, three have crossbeak!!! They are all black chicks, which are some of my most beautiful, healthy chickens in my flock. But my black chicks lay colored eggs and I believe all these chicks came from a brown egg. Those would be my 4 hens that came from the feed store and look like heck! They always have bald backs and after they molt the feathers come in crazy.

Prior to this, all the chicks I have hatched, we had one cross beak. She also was black and we culled her at about 2 months because she was very tiny and chased us around begging for us to feed her. I already had one handicapped chicken and I couldn't take care of another and didn't want to risk her laying eggs and then trying to identify them so I didn't hatch them. Unfortunately, I have no way to know which hen is laying the crossbeaks so I'm not hatching any brown eggs. I have people waiting for chicks so I can't do a test by adding one hens eggs. You know, as I'm typing I'm remembering that I have added a brown laying hen to my flock. My daughter had four hens and lost three over the years and with only one left she decided to just rehome it with us. Maybe it's her? She got her chicks from a small farm and she's really a pretty girl, I think she's a cross between a buff orpington and a sexlink maybe. Hmmm

Anyone deal with this before. I'm pretty sure it's genetic right? I hate to hatch out crossbeak on purpose but I don't know how else to figure out who it is.

It is not necessarily genetic. Have you wormed or medicated your hens recently? Sometimes medication causes deformities.

 

[juststruttin]

Not really top secret, I think I've mentioned it before. You mean you guys don't keep track of what I'm doing? And wait on pins and needles for the result?

The cross is a golden campine over a white leghorn. Sons are freezer birds and daughters are bred back to their GC fathers. I'm trying to create my own line of Chamois Campines

I couldn't find a good quality white leghorn pullet/hen, so had to get chicks and grow them out. I ended up with four WL girls (and three roos I'll be able to put back over them for show quality WL now too). They only started to lay about a month ago.

Chamois campines

wow, they are truly stunning. Good luck with your project. We will be waiting on pins and needles.

 

[PetRock]

These are from last week but you can see the legs of the one in the middle are greenish looking. Now they are definitely grey.



So much new feathering as this one has grown too. I will bore you with a post of an updated pic later. It's embarrassing that i didn't notice the legs sooner. They are totally obvious.

They are all such cute chicks! I have 3 Langshan/Langshan mix chicks that my broody hatched out. I think that only 1 of them is possibly a pure blue Langshan and I'm guessing a pullet. 1 other one is almost completely black except for under her butt. I'm pretty sure she is a pullet and I'm guessing that her mother is the one mutt black hen that my friend can't catch to get rid of. The 3rd one is a lighter blue color than the first one and almost definitely a boy. There is a strong possibility that he is a Langshan/Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock cross. He has a light head and yellow legs so not pure Langshan. It will be interesting to see what he looks like as he matures! I'll try to get some new pics but they are all over the yard with their mama.